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| A franchise militaire cover from the post at | |||||||||||||||||||
| Taza (near Fez) in Morocco to La Calle (now El Kala) in Algeria. The La Calle receiver shows that it took a week to move about 450 miles across North Africa. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| And this Correspondance des Armées card | |||||||||||||||||||
| sent from Kouba, Algeria to the war front at Salonika, Greece. | |||||||||||||||||||
| I also found a couple of nice items - both military - pertaining to the French Levant: | |||||||||||||||||||
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| First, a registered envelope to France from the French Military Mission Secteur 600 (Beyrouth) with a 40c Merson, a 20c brown cameo sower, and a "SECTEUR 600" registered label all tied by "TRESOR ET POSTES 600" date stamps. I thought this was a pretty neat find. | |||||||||||||||||||
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And then I found this censored mourning cover. It was sent to Beyrouth bearing six 25 on 5c and one 50 on 10c OMF (Occupation Militaire Francaise) stamps. Violet octagonal El-Chevir (Beyrouth) date stamps tie them to the cover. Alep censor and routing marks of Alep and Beyrouth are on the back. I thought this was a pretty wild piece, even with the tape stains. | ||||||||||||||||||
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